Christopher McCarthy

Christopher T. McCarthy is co-owner of Informed Therapy Resources (ITR) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). He has almost completed his Phd in counseling, just finishing up his dissertation on couple communication. This degree will go along with his 3 Masters degrees in counseling and education. He is certified in Soul-Healing Love couple therapy, Crisis Incident and Stress Management, and Treating Difficult Adolescents.

Christopher has been a practicing counselor for 12 years. He specializes in marital and premarital counseling; family and parenting counseling; adolescent counseling, including issues of rebellion, drug use, sexual identity, abuse and divorce recovery; child counseling using play, art, and talk therapy to help children with anxiety, depression, behavior and learning problems; men’s issues, including depression, anxiety, addictions, and sexual identity. He writes and teaches seminars in parenting, child development, healthy marriages, and overcoming sexual addictions and abuse.

ITR is committed to producing quality products for people who struggle with mental health issues. The products they feature are:

Turnaround: Turning Fear Into Freedom- a kid friendly audio program that helps anxious children break free from their fears.

Med FAQs- an eighty-minute interview with Neuropsychiatrist, Dr. James Lee about the use of medications to treat anxiety. ITR supports finding solutions apart from medications. We provide the facts regarding the pros and cons of medications and then let the consumer decide.

Christopher's passions include learing to better love his wife and children, helping anxious children, mentoring teenagers, growing closer to God, hiking, fly-fishing, tennis, and travel.